PSYCH 130- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 172 pages long!)
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Hypothesized where trouble in adults originated from; conflicts unresolved during childhood. If not resolved, fixation on body part occurs. Each associated with an important body part; some conflict during each stage. Primal urges to seek out urges and gratification. Oral (0-2): infant seeks oral gratification by sucking, biting, babbling. Research has shown that babies learn from mouthing objects; sense of touch develops from top down; children are more sensitive to touch in mouths than in hands. Anal (2-3): potty training helps toddlers balance their needs for anal gratification with society"s demand to be clean and neat. Anal compulsive: orderly, parents were way too demanding. Anal expulsive: messy, personality related to parents weren"t demanding enough. Phallic (3-7): in early childhood, an unconscious desire for the opposite sex parent is controlled by identification with the same sex parent. Boys and girls have an obsession with the penis but because girls don"t have one they develop penis envy.
